The state’s health department says the requirement achieved the intended benefit of savings lives, protecting health care capacity and limiting the spread of the virus. An industry that struggled with pandemic-era staffing shortages welcomes the change.
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Maine’s childhood vaccination rate goes from one of nation’s lowest to one of the highest
Only medical exemptions to school-required vaccinations are permitted under the law that eliminated religious and philosophical opt-outs 2 years ago.
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Court grants new life to lawsuit challenging Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers
Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state’s COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.
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U.S. kindergarten vaccination rate dropped again, data shows
Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners are down again, and federal officials are launching a new campaign to try to bring them up
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House passes $858 billion defense bill, scrapping COVID vaccine mandate for military members
It now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to pass easily, then to the president to be signed into law.
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Canada likely to drop vaccine requirement to enter
It is not immediately known whether the U.S. will make a similar move by Sept. 30.
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Thousands of Maine people per day getting their booster doses
Supplies are ‘sufficient, but limited,’ says Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah.
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New COVID-19 booster shots coming to Maine
Maine is expected to receive 80,500 doses of new omicron-targeting booster shots within the next 2 weeks.
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U.S. advisers endorse updated COVID-19 shots for fall boosters
The original vaccines still offer strong protection against severe illness and death, especially among younger and healthier people, but those vaccines were designed to target the virus strain that circulated in early 2020.
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Maine begins COVID-19 vaccinations of preschoolers
Some eager parents got appointments for their children to get shots on Tuesday as the state began the rollout of vaccines for children 6 months to 5 years old.